The Dark Side of iCloud Private Relay: A New Report Exposes the Add Fraud Scheme

A recent report from Pixelate has shed light on the add fraud scheme known as i64, which has been causing tens of millions of dollars in losses to advertisers. According to the report, scammers are using iCloud private relay IPv6 and IPv4 addresses to fake the true source of traffic, making it nearly impossible for advertisers to track the origin of their ads. The report estimates that over 90% of iCloud private relay traffic is invalid and spoofed, leaving advertisers vulnerable to these types of attacks.

The digital ad industry is taking notice of this issue and is calling for a defense mechanism against these types of attacks. Researchers suggest that the industry should block all iCloud private relay IP addresses to prevent further exploitation. This would require significant changes to the way advertisers and publishers interact with each other, but it's a step that may be necessary to protect consumers and maintain the integrity of the online advertising ecosystem.

The Apple Deal: Michael Lewis's Book About FTX

Apple is finalizing a deal for the book rights to Michael Lewis's upcoming story about the fall of FTX and its founder Sam Bankman-Fried. The book, which has been six months in the making, will provide an inside look at the inner workings of FTX and the events that led to its collapse. Lewis, who is also the author of Moneyball, The Big Short, and The Blind Side, spent months working with FTX before everything came to light.

The deal with Apple is reportedly worth mid-seven figures, making it one of the most significant book deals in recent memory. Apple's interest in the book is likely due to its reputation for producing high-quality, engaging content that resonates with audiences. The fact that Lewis spent six months working with FTX before everything came to light adds credibility to his account and makes the book a must-read for anyone interested in the world of finance and cryptocurrency.

Elon Musk's Potential iPhone Competitor

When asked if he would consider making an alternative phone if Apple and Google banned Twitter from their app stores, Elon Musk said that he would "certainly hope it hasn't come to that," but added that "yes" if there was no other choice, he would make an alternative phone. While this statement may seem like just a hypothetical exercise, it's actually a serious proposal that could have significant implications for the tech industry.

Musk's experience with Tesla has given him a reputation for building innovative and highly successful products. The Tesla software team is comprised of some of the most talented engineers in the industry, which suggests that if Musk were to ever create an iPhone competitor, it would be well-designed and capable of competing with the best. However, this is purely speculative, and it's impossible to predict whether or when such a product might emerge.

YouTube Drama: The Shady World of Sponsored Posts

Recently, I posted about my personal take on everything going on in the world of YouTube and sponsored posts. Specifically, I discussed my experience with a company called Established Titles, which I almost did a brand deal with. Despite showing real emails and other documentation, the company has turned out to be shady and more interested in making money than maintaining integrity.

I wrote about how as someone who values trust and transparency, I would rather prioritize those qualities over profits. I asked my audience if they had any experience with YouTube creators who have promoted FTX or other brands that may have been involved in questionable activities. The responses were overwhelmingly positive, with many viewers sharing their own experiences of being disappointed by certain YouTubers.

The TikTok Scandal: How Creators Were Duped

I also mentioned the recent TikTok scandal involving FTX and established titles. It appears that some creators were duped into promoting these brands without fully understanding the implications of their actions. This raises serious questions about the responsibilities of influencers and the importance of transparency in online advertising.

As someone who values authenticity and honesty, I believe that creators have a duty to inform their audience about the potential risks and consequences of sponsored posts. By doing so, they can build trust with their viewers and maintain the integrity of their brand. This is especially important when it comes to promoting cryptocurrency or other high-risk investments.

Podcast Plans: Apple Weekly and Beyond

Finally, I wanted to ask my audience if they would be interested in listening to an audio version of the Apple weekly episode, which would cover a wide range of topics including tech news, Apple updates, and interviews with industry experts. The podcast would likely be one hour long and delve deeper into each topic than the YouTube videos.

While it's still just an idea at this point, I'm curious to hear your thoughts on whether you'd tune in to a podcast version of Apple weekly. Would you subscribe? What topics would you like to see covered? Your feedback is invaluable, and I look forward to hearing from you in the comments below.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up guys my name is Brandon and welcome back to Apple weekly I hope you all had a Happy Thanksgiving but now it's time to talk about the latest Apple news and the latest IOS 16 features so in this episode we're going to discuss the latest IOS 16.2 beta 3 and when to expect the next release along with iOS 16.1.1 in its recent issues and then after covering the software side of things we're going to discuss more iPhone 15 design changes to expect next year the Dark Side of Apple's private relay feature Elon Musk potentially making an iPhone competitor YouTube drama and more and as always if you guys want to stay updated with all things Apple make sure to click that subscribe button down below so you don't miss next week's episode alright so let's first start by talking about the latest IOS 16.2 beta which is beta 3A and yes we have an a at the end because we do have our first security response update so if you missed it if we go into our settings General about you can see it shows 16.2 to a and right here we have the rapid security response and I am currently removing the security response update because I have had some questions about people asking if you can remove this security updates and then reinstall it after you remove it and the answer to that is yes I just tried it and I will show you again once I remove that what it looks like you will come back pretty much right away and if you go back into your settings and then go to General software updates that's when you will see the security response update repopulate in that software update section now I would imagine that once the security responses are actually useful like this was just a test which is why it was you know released in a beta version but once Apple starts actually pushing out these rapid security response updates if you go to your automatic update section and you have this toggle turned on I would imagine that these updates would install much sooner than actual full-on iOS updates now I also wanted to touch on the live activities feature in the TV app specifically so if we tap on follow here we have have our live activity going right there and on the lock screen and if we go into our settings if we go to the TV section right here and then go down to live activities and we have more frequent updates turned on I found that even with this turned on sometimes these scores are falling behind like sometimes the scores are just like two or three minutes behind the actual score so this appears to be a bug in the latest version of iOS 16.2 I hope it gets resolved soon the only reason I even knew it was behind is because I was following this game in the ESPN app as well as having the live activity up in my Dynamic Island up here so hopefully that gets fixed although this more frequent updates toggle is nice to have but again it's still not there for third-party applications now speaking of third-party applications I did also want to mention that Uber did finally add the live activities toggle so it was not there for Uber it was there for ubereats before but now with the latest Uber update we have the live activities toggle however I did a test ride and I can't so that just to see if it would actually work and we still do not have live activities for Uber so hopefully that comes soon I see that as being one of the most useful features for utilizing the live activities functionality especially on the lock screen right here now I did also want to briefly touch on the scheduled summary and basically clearing this out from your notification center so before on iOS 16 you would just have to tap right here and then tap on the X to clear it but now you're actually able to swipe over on this you can see you can swipe over all the way or you can swipe over a little bit and tap on the clear button so that's really nice I really didn't like having to tap on the number and then the X and then clear it was a three-step process now it could just be a simple one step process by swiping over on it as long as you don't have that turned down right here you can swipe all the way and it will clear it I've also really been enjoying the music animation changes which I didn't really think I would it was a kind of a small change but it really adds to the whole experience of the music application the play pause the next and back the animation with the lyrics when you go down right here so when the lyrics go down and then you pop it back up it's just much smoother than it was in previous versions I've been really enjoying that little change in music here in 16.2 as well now also one thing I've noticed has definitely been changed I talked about this in a previous episode but I talked about how these stutter when going home from certain applications appears to be fixed I didn't know for sure but now after using 16.1.1 which I'm still using by the way on my main device over here I have not updated to 16.2 yet on my main device so I see that stutter all the time on 16.1.1 and I've really tried to replicate that here on 16.2 and I cannot so that stutter when going home from an application so if you're in like the app store for example and you go home there's a slight stutter before it goes back to the home screen that is definitely resolved here in 16.2 at least in beta 3. I hope it doesn't come back in a future release now as far as the freeform application goes this of course is Apple's brand new application here in 16.2 and I think Apple's gonna have to do a lot of marketing for this because as of right now of course you know I'm not in really an environment where this would be useful to me anyways but I just don't see anybody talking about this at all there seems to be no hype about it whatsoever so I would imagine that Apple will start marketing this once 16.2 gets released to the public I'm sure they'll have a press release specifically on the freeform application but this is going to be great for those who work you know remote with a lot of different employees a lot of co-workers you guys can kind of you know collaborate on one big whiteboard essentially right here which can be nice but as of right now I don't really see anybody talking about it if you've used the freeform application you know and actually worked with somebody else let me know in a comment down below because I am very curious to see you know how you're utilizing this feature and then something I wanted to briefly mention that has nothing to do with 16.2 but the Apple music application might be coming to Teslas so if you have a Tesla this was spotted in the Peterson Automotive Museum in Los Angeles where they have Teslas in there and one of them had Apple music on it so it appears that that might be coming in Tesla's annual holiday update which always brings a lot of new features to the Tesla so finally Apple music on the Tesla all right now I said I would not discuss iOS 16.1.1 anymore in apple weekly last week but I've been having some issues with it lately so I need to discuss the software once again so 16.1.1 is the latest public release I believe that most of you guys are probably on 16.1.1 right now now in terms of performance and battery life nothing has changed from what I said last episode but what has changed are a few bugs that I've been encountering kind of all of a sudden and most of these I would assume are also occurring in the latest 16.2 betas so the first one is that sometimes my widgets will just simply disappear so this happens mainly with the widgets on the lock screen so these will disappear and not come back so this happened to me twice now the first time I thought it was just I forgot to put a widget back on my lock screen but it happened again where one of my widgets would just completely just appear it would remove itself and I would have to add it back never had that before it have to be in 16.1.1 twice it's also happened on the home screen but it's not a new bug we've had this for a while it's kind of just where it disappears and then reappears after you know maybe 10 seconds but a much bigger issue in 16.1.1 that I've been having is that Focus modes will just randomly turn off by themselves this is extremely annoying especially when I'm asleep and it takes me out of sleep mode and then I hear a vibration and a sound from a notification that I should not be hearing because I should still be in sleep mode but every morning now it seems like for the past few nights it's just taken me out of sleep mode randomly way before my sleep schedule is set to be you know before my alarm is is going off or anything like that it's just really strange and then of course I am having that stutter when I go into an application and out of it like if I go into an application and out of it I do have a slight stutter there so of course it doesn't happen oh it just happened right there so it doesn't happen every single time but sometimes you will see the stutter so just a few times ago you saw that little minor stutter there when I went out of the Reddit application now as far as bugs and iOS 16.2 beta 3 specifically one of the main ones is inside of safari so if you go into Safari here let's go out of this if we go into the control center and then right after going out of the control center go into Safari to start to type something you could see that the keyboard lags there and sometimes it doesn't show up at all so if I do that again go here and then go right to tap you can see there's a little delay there in the keyboard and like I said sometimes it doesn't even show up at all and then of course I am still having the issues with YouTube where sometimes I would just get a black screen I will hear audio but I'll just get a black screen and I have to go out of that video and back into it and I'm also having issues with rotation on YouTube it goes the opposite way of the way that it should alright so enough complaining about the bugs let's talk about what is next for Apple what can we expect to see released next and the reason we didn't get a beta 4 this past week was due to Thanksgiving so of course Apple has never released a software update on the week of Thanksgiving and actually in certain years they skip the following week after Thanksgiving as well so 16.2 beta 4 I still think it should come next week most likely right here on the 29th but there is also a slim possibility of it coming on the following week which would be the week of December 5th but if we do get beta 4 right here next week on the 29th then we should get the RC right after that on the 6th and then we should get a final on the week of the 12th and that has been my original prediction for a few weeks now so we'll see if that comes true and I don't think we're going to see a 16.3 beta 1 until January it is possible to get it that same week that 16.2 releases but a lot of the times Apple just wants to you know kind of wait until January until they can push out updates more frequently because after that final release we're probably not going to see anything Apple's probably going to be on holiday until early or mid-January all right so now let's talk about the latest Apple news and let's start with an update on what we talked about a few episodes ago and that is iPhone shortages due to the madness that's happening in China now so this all started out as a covid-19 outbreak inside of foxconn's biggest iPhone assembly plant in Zhang Zhu which is known as iPhone City and when those workers heard that kovid was continuing to spread in the plants and that there was also not enough food and medication many workers broke out of the plant to return home it's almost like they were just being held hostage inside of that factory but after this madness went down Foxconn started offering bonuses to workers in the plants to work on these iPhones but nobody was accepting their offer so they had to raise the bonus significantly before workers actually started to accept it but it gets worse because then those newly recruited workers who got that big bonus they reported that they were not being paid the bonus that they were promised which led to some of those you know out of control protest videos that you probably saw online and then Foxconn later admitted that it made a technical error over bonuses and said that they would correct it and now according to Reuters Foxconn is offering an exit bonus equivalent plant to one to two months salary for anybody who wanted to leave and according to this report more than twenty thousand workers have taken advantage of this and left with the money so now what's the main reason we're talking about this well all of these people quitting means that iPhone production is going to take a massive hit so last month there was a report that predicted that production would slump by as much as 30 percent but now we're hearing that it's going to be at least 30 percent and this report also says that it was quote impossible for the company to resume full production by the end of the month a deadline it had set internally before Wednesday's wave of protests pretty wild but now it appears that things are slowly getting back to normal over there although like I mentioned a few weeks back if you wanted to get an iPhone anytime soon especially Before Christmas your best bet is to order it ASAP way before you even think you need it because we don't know what delivery times will look like in a month or two months now moving ahead a bit to iPhone 15 we have some new information about the design so according to shrimp Apple Pro the back edges of the iPhone 15 could be rounded instead of square like we see on the 14 models so these new borders are going to be similar to the bottom edges on the case of the 14 and 16 inch MacBook Pros he also mentions that the chassis will be made of titanium but that the glass back will still remain so it's going to be interesting to see if this happens since we heard the same thing about the iPhone 14 we heard that it's going to be made of titanium but those rumors proved to be false so we're still early in the iPhone 15 Rumor Mill so stay tuned for further leaks and rumors about this design so you guys know the private relay feature right that's built into IOS as part of iCloud plus well this feature enabled an exploit that has caused advertisers over 65 million dollars this year alone so according to a new report from pixelate the add fraud scheme known as ip64 worked like this scammers would insert iCloud private relay IPv6 and ipv4 or addresses into add requests to fake the true source of the traffic it's estimated that over 90 percent of iCloud private relay traffic may be invalid and spoofed which is causing advertisers tens of millions of dollars researchers suggest that the digital ad industry should block all iCloud private relay IP addresses as a defense against these type of attacks and if you want to read more about this it gets really technical I will leave a link to the report down in the description below it's very interesting and I think it's only a matter of time before Apple kind of cracks down on this and either removes this feature completely or heavily tweaks it but it's likely going to take a whole new version of iOS for that to happen likely iOS 17 or later so by now we should all know about the massive Ponzi scheme known as FTX and the founder Sam Beckman freed well apple is finalizing a deal for the book rights to Michael Lewis's upcoming story about the fall of SPF and the cryptocurrency trading platform FTX and you know know what comes after the book right a TV show or a movie and according to deadline it's expected to be turned into a feature film Michael Lewis who is the author behind Moneyball The Big Short and The Blind Side spent six months with SPF before everything came to light before the whole scheme came to light so he knows a lot about the inner workings of FTX and a lot of things that we don't know so this book and this film is going to do huge numbers sources are saying that the deal with Apple is in the mid seven figures since they likely had to compete with Netflix and Amazon for this project and then finally do you think that Elon Musk would be able to create a true iPhone competitor because when asked if he would consider making a phone if Apple and Google banned Twitter from their app stores he said this I certainly hope it has not come to that but yes if there is no other choice I will make an alternative phone and while this seems like something to just laugh off and say yeah right I actually think that this phone would have a shot at becoming very very popular that is if it were to ever happen which by the way I don't think it will but the reason I say it has a shot is because of how well designed the Tesla software is they already have a bunch of extremely talented Engineers on board so if there ever was a Tesla phone would you consider buying one it's a genuine question I have and then finally let's talk about some YouTube drama over sponsored posts so I posted this over on my Twitter and it was about my personal take on everything going on right now and the main thing I'm talking about is a company called established titles who I almost did a brand deal with I even show real emails here about you know what I was offered and things like that but it's essentially not I wouldn't say it's a scam but it's a very shady company and I basically just made a whole thread about you know some YouTube creators really just chasing after the money instead of their integrity and you know kind of the trust of the viewers and I was talking about how I would just rather be you know having you guys trust me more than making some money so I don't know just thing I want to talk about if you guys have any experience with you know YouTube channels that you guys watch that may have scanned viewers by promoting FTX or established titles or raycons or some of these other brands I just want to hear your thoughts on this down in the comments below I got a lot of good responses over on Twitter I'm just curious what you guys think about the whole tick and I will link to that thread over on Twitter down in the description below and one final thing I wanted to ask you guys is this if I turn this apple weekly episode into a podcast along with many other topics and interviews would you listen would you tune in would you subscribe to that podcast of course I would make it more of an audio experience so that it wouldn't be as similar to my YouTube channel and of course Apple weekly would be much different it would probably be like an hour long I'd go more in depth with everything but let me know I've just been really tossing around the idea of starting a podcast I would really like to know your guys's thoughts on that so there you have it that is the latest batch of apple news from this past week along with some updates on the latest IOS 16 changes as always I really appreciate you guys for watching these videos If you enjoyed it as always I would appreciate if you give it a thumbs up also make sure to subscribe so you don't miss next week's Apple weekly episode but anyways guys thanks again for watching and I'll see you soonwhat's up guys my name is Brandon and welcome back to Apple weekly I hope you all had a Happy Thanksgiving but now it's time to talk about the latest Apple news and the latest IOS 16 features so in this episode we're going to discuss the latest IOS 16.2 beta 3 and when to expect the next release along with iOS 16.1.1 in its recent issues and then after covering the software side of things we're going to discuss more iPhone 15 design changes to expect next year the Dark Side of Apple's private relay feature Elon Musk potentially making an iPhone competitor YouTube drama and more and as always if you guys want to stay updated with all things Apple make sure to click that subscribe button down below so you don't miss next week's episode alright so let's first start by talking about the latest IOS 16.2 beta which is beta 3A and yes we have an a at the end because we do have our first security response update so if you missed it if we go into our settings General about you can see it shows 16.2 to a and right here we have the rapid security response and I am currently removing the security response update because I have had some questions about people asking if you can remove this security updates and then reinstall it after you remove it and the answer to that is yes I just tried it and I will show you again once I remove that what it looks like you will come back pretty much right away and if you go back into your settings and then go to General software updates that's when you will see the security response update repopulate in that software update section now I would imagine that once the security responses are actually useful like this was just a test which is why it was you know released in a beta version but once Apple starts actually pushing out these rapid security response updates if you go to your automatic update section and you have this toggle turned on I would imagine that these updates would install much sooner than actual full-on iOS updates now I also wanted to touch on the live activities feature in the TV app specifically so if we tap on follow here we have have our live activity going right there and on the lock screen and if we go into our settings if we go to the TV section right here and then go down to live activities and we have more frequent updates turned on I found that even with this turned on sometimes these scores are falling behind like sometimes the scores are just like two or three minutes behind the actual score so this appears to be a bug in the latest version of iOS 16.2 I hope it gets resolved soon the only reason I even knew it was behind is because I was following this game in the ESPN app as well as having the live activity up in my Dynamic Island up here so hopefully that gets fixed although this more frequent updates toggle is nice to have but again it's still not there for third-party applications now speaking of third-party applications I did also want to mention that Uber did finally add the live activities toggle so it was not there for Uber it was there for ubereats before but now with the latest Uber update we have the live activities toggle however I did a test ride and I can't so that just to see if it would actually work and we still do not have live activities for Uber so hopefully that comes soon I see that as being one of the most useful features for utilizing the live activities functionality especially on the lock screen right here now I did also want to briefly touch on the scheduled summary and basically clearing this out from your notification center so before on iOS 16 you would just have to tap right here and then tap on the X to clear it but now you're actually able to swipe over on this you can see you can swipe over all the way or you can swipe over a little bit and tap on the clear button so that's really nice I really didn't like having to tap on the number and then the X and then clear it was a three-step process now it could just be a simple one step process by swiping over on it as long as you don't have that turned down right here you can swipe all the way and it will clear it I've also really been enjoying the music animation changes which I didn't really think I would it was a kind of a small change but it really adds to the whole experience of the music application the play pause the next and back the animation with the lyrics when you go down right here so when the lyrics go down and then you pop it back up it's just much smoother than it was in previous versions I've been really enjoying that little change in music here in 16.2 as well now also one thing I've noticed has definitely been changed I talked about this in a previous episode but I talked about how these stutter when going home from certain applications appears to be fixed I didn't know for sure but now after using 16.1.1 which I'm still using by the way on my main device over here I have not updated to 16.2 yet on my main device so I see that stutter all the time on 16.1.1 and I've really tried to replicate that here on 16.2 and I cannot so that stutter when going home from an application so if you're in like the app store for example and you go home there's a slight stutter before it goes back to the home screen that is definitely resolved here in 16.2 at least in beta 3. I hope it doesn't come back in a future release now as far as the freeform application goes this of course is Apple's brand new application here in 16.2 and I think Apple's gonna have to do a lot of marketing for this because as of right now of course you know I'm not in really an environment where this would be useful to me anyways but I just don't see anybody talking about this at all there seems to be no hype about it whatsoever so I would imagine that Apple will start marketing this once 16.2 gets released to the public I'm sure they'll have a press release specifically on the freeform application but this is going to be great for those who work you know remote with a lot of different employees a lot of co-workers you guys can kind of you know collaborate on one big whiteboard essentially right here which can be nice but as of right now I don't really see anybody talking about it if you've used the freeform application you know and actually worked with somebody else let me know in a comment down below because I am very curious to see you know how you're utilizing this feature and then something I wanted to briefly mention that has nothing to do with 16.2 but the Apple music application might be coming to Teslas so if you have a Tesla this was spotted in the Peterson Automotive Museum in Los Angeles where they have Teslas in there and one of them had Apple music on it so it appears that that might be coming in Tesla's annual holiday update which always brings a lot of new features to the Tesla so finally Apple music on the Tesla all right now I said I would not discuss iOS 16.1.1 anymore in apple weekly last week but I've been having some issues with it lately so I need to discuss the software once again so 16.1.1 is the latest public release I believe that most of you guys are probably on 16.1.1 right now now in terms of performance and battery life nothing has changed from what I said last episode but what has changed are a few bugs that I've been encountering kind of all of a sudden and most of these I would assume are also occurring in the latest 16.2 betas so the first one is that sometimes my widgets will just simply disappear so this happens mainly with the widgets on the lock screen so these will disappear and not come back so this happened to me twice now the first time I thought it was just I forgot to put a widget back on my lock screen but it happened again where one of my widgets would just completely just appear it would remove itself and I would have to add it back never had that before it have to be in 16.1.1 twice it's also happened on the home screen but it's not a new bug we've had this for a while it's kind of just where it disappears and then reappears after you know maybe 10 seconds but a much bigger issue in 16.1.1 that I've been having is that Focus modes will just randomly turn off by themselves this is extremely annoying especially when I'm asleep and it takes me out of sleep mode and then I hear a vibration and a sound from a notification that I should not be hearing because I should still be in sleep mode but every morning now it seems like for the past few nights it's just taken me out of sleep mode randomly way before my sleep schedule is set to be you know before my alarm is is going off or anything like that it's just really strange and then of course I am having that stutter when I go into an application and out of it like if I go into an application and out of it I do have a slight stutter there so of course it doesn't happen oh it just happened right there so it doesn't happen every single time but sometimes you will see the stutter so just a few times ago you saw that little minor stutter there when I went out of the Reddit application now as far as bugs and iOS 16.2 beta 3 specifically one of the main ones is inside of safari so if you go into Safari here let's go out of this if we go into the control center and then right after going out of the control center go into Safari to start to type something you could see that the keyboard lags there and sometimes it doesn't show up at all so if I do that again go here and then go right to tap you can see there's a little delay there in the keyboard and like I said sometimes it doesn't even show up at all and then of course I am still having the issues with YouTube where sometimes I would just get a black screen I will hear audio but I'll just get a black screen and I have to go out of that video and back into it and I'm also having issues with rotation on YouTube it goes the opposite way of the way that it should alright so enough complaining about the bugs let's talk about what is next for Apple what can we expect to see released next and the reason we didn't get a beta 4 this past week was due to Thanksgiving so of course Apple has never released a software update on the week of Thanksgiving and actually in certain years they skip the following week after Thanksgiving as well so 16.2 beta 4 I still think it should come next week most likely right here on the 29th but there is also a slim possibility of it coming on the following week which would be the week of December 5th but if we do get beta 4 right here next week on the 29th then we should get the RC right after that on the 6th and then we should get a final on the week of the 12th and that has been my original prediction for a few weeks now so we'll see if that comes true and I don't think we're going to see a 16.3 beta 1 until January it is possible to get it that same week that 16.2 releases but a lot of the times Apple just wants to you know kind of wait until January until they can push out updates more frequently because after that final release we're probably not going to see anything Apple's probably going to be on holiday until early or mid-January all right so now let's talk about the latest Apple news and let's start with an update on what we talked about a few episodes ago and that is iPhone shortages due to the madness that's happening in China now so this all started out as a covid-19 outbreak inside of foxconn's biggest iPhone assembly plant in Zhang Zhu which is known as iPhone City and when those workers heard that kovid was continuing to spread in the plants and that there was also not enough food and medication many workers broke out of the plant to return home it's almost like they were just being held hostage inside of that factory but after this madness went down Foxconn started offering bonuses to workers in the plants to work on these iPhones but nobody was accepting their offer so they had to raise the bonus significantly before workers actually started to accept it but it gets worse because then those newly recruited workers who got that big bonus they reported that they were not being paid the bonus that they were promised which led to some of those you know out of control protest videos that you probably saw online and then Foxconn later admitted that it made a technical error over bonuses and said that they would correct it and now according to Reuters Foxconn is offering an exit bonus equivalent plant to one to two months salary for anybody who wanted to leave and according to this report more than twenty thousand workers have taken advantage of this and left with the money so now what's the main reason we're talking about this well all of these people quitting means that iPhone production is going to take a massive hit so last month there was a report that predicted that production would slump by as much as 30 percent but now we're hearing that it's going to be at least 30 percent and this report also says that it was quote impossible for the company to resume full production by the end of the month a deadline it had set internally before Wednesday's wave of protests pretty wild but now it appears that things are slowly getting back to normal over there although like I mentioned a few weeks back if you wanted to get an iPhone anytime soon especially Before Christmas your best bet is to order it ASAP way before you even think you need it because we don't know what delivery times will look like in a month or two months now moving ahead a bit to iPhone 15 we have some new information about the design so according to shrimp Apple Pro the back edges of the iPhone 15 could be rounded instead of square like we see on the 14 models so these new borders are going to be similar to the bottom edges on the case of the 14 and 16 inch MacBook Pros he also mentions that the chassis will be made of titanium but that the glass back will still remain so it's going to be interesting to see if this happens since we heard the same thing about the iPhone 14 we heard that it's going to be made of titanium but those rumors proved to be false so we're still early in the iPhone 15 Rumor Mill so stay tuned for further leaks and rumors about this design so you guys know the private relay feature right that's built into IOS as part of iCloud plus well this feature enabled an exploit that has caused advertisers over 65 million dollars this year alone so according to a new report from pixelate the add fraud scheme known as ip64 worked like this scammers would insert iCloud private relay IPv6 and ipv4 or addresses into add requests to fake the true source of the traffic it's estimated that over 90 percent of iCloud private relay traffic may be invalid and spoofed which is causing advertisers tens of millions of dollars researchers suggest that the digital ad industry should block all iCloud private relay IP addresses as a defense against these type of attacks and if you want to read more about this it gets really technical I will leave a link to the report down in the description below it's very interesting and I think it's only a matter of time before Apple kind of cracks down on this and either removes this feature completely or heavily tweaks it but it's likely going to take a whole new version of iOS for that to happen likely iOS 17 or later so by now we should all know about the massive Ponzi scheme known as FTX and the founder Sam Beckman freed well apple is finalizing a deal for the book rights to Michael Lewis's upcoming story about the fall of SPF and the cryptocurrency trading platform FTX and you know know what comes after the book right a TV show or a movie and according to deadline it's expected to be turned into a feature film Michael Lewis who is the author behind Moneyball The Big Short and The Blind Side spent six months with SPF before everything came to light before the whole scheme came to light so he knows a lot about the inner workings of FTX and a lot of things that we don't know so this book and this film is going to do huge numbers sources are saying that the deal with Apple is in the mid seven figures since they likely had to compete with Netflix and Amazon for this project and then finally do you think that Elon Musk would be able to create a true iPhone competitor because when asked if he would consider making a phone if Apple and Google banned Twitter from their app stores he said this I certainly hope it has not come to that but yes if there is no other choice I will make an alternative phone and while this seems like something to just laugh off and say yeah right I actually think that this phone would have a shot at becoming very very popular that is if it were to ever happen which by the way I don't think it will but the reason I say it has a shot is because of how well designed the Tesla software is they already have a bunch of extremely talented Engineers on board so if there ever was a Tesla phone would you consider buying one it's a genuine question I have and then finally let's talk about some YouTube drama over sponsored posts so I posted this over on my Twitter and it was about my personal take on everything going on right now and the main thing I'm talking about is a company called established titles who I almost did a brand deal with I even show real emails here about you know what I was offered and things like that but it's essentially not I wouldn't say it's a scam but it's a very shady company and I basically just made a whole thread about you know some YouTube creators really just chasing after the money instead of their integrity and you know kind of the trust of the viewers and I was talking about how I would just rather be you know having you guys trust me more than making some money so I don't know just thing I want to talk about if you guys have any experience with you know YouTube channels that you guys watch that may have scanned viewers by promoting FTX or established titles or raycons or some of these other brands I just want to hear your thoughts on this down in the comments below I got a lot of good responses over on Twitter I'm just curious what you guys think about the whole tick and I will link to that thread over on Twitter down in the description below and one final thing I wanted to ask you guys is this if I turn this apple weekly episode into a podcast along with many other topics and interviews would you listen would you tune in would you subscribe to that podcast of course I would make it more of an audio experience so that it wouldn't be as similar to my YouTube channel and of course Apple weekly would be much different it would probably be like an hour long I'd go more in depth with everything but let me know I've just been really tossing around the idea of starting a podcast I would really like to know your guys's thoughts on that so there you have it that is the latest batch of apple news from this past week along with some updates on the latest IOS 16 changes as always I really appreciate you guys for watching these videos If you enjoyed it as always I would appreciate if you give it a thumbs up also make sure to subscribe so you don't miss next week's Apple weekly episode but anyways guys thanks again for watching and I'll see you soon\n"